Recaps

Wanda arrived at the Seventh Gate and confronted Lynn, Hela, and Monk over the stolen Department of Technology materials. She recognized that Lynn carried a crystal card etched with her Magic Circuit and demanded that he show it to her.

• Wanda emerged from a dark rift beneath the troop carrier, and her power lifted and crushed debris while she demanded to know why Department of Technology property had been hidden there.
• Wanda silenced Monk’s protest by hurling an iron ball beside his command vehicle and shutting down the armored battalion’s vehicles.
• Hela claimed the Stability Maintenance Office had taken over the Seventh Gate, and Wanda accused it of extracting her Magic Circuit from the sixth basement level.
• Lynn explained that eight sub-control cards had been left as bait after someone took the master, and he described the hidden compartment and the forced short-circuit command.
• Wanda’s palm mark resonated with the ninth crystal card in Lynn’s uniform, revealing that it carried her etched circuit.
• Wanda reached toward Lynn and demanded that he take the crystal card out so she could see how many traces of her remained on him.

Lynn contained a pulsing card core under official evidence procedures and revealed that the reactor energy theft was tied to the Central Broadcast Tower. As Wanda and Hela moved to confront the mastermind, the tower sealed itself and began a self-destruct countdown.

• Lynn showed Wanda and Hela the sealed relay card core and cited regulations that allowed him to contain it as evidence.
• Lynn explained that someone had used Wanda’s magic to siphon energy from the reactor, while Gwen Stacy’s detector traced the signal to the Central Broadcast Tower.
• Gwen Stacy revealed that four master card cores had been taken to the tower to force open Starport’s third outer defensive force field.
• Hela ordered the Black Crow Honor Guard to seal the tower’s escape routes, and Wanda flew toward it in a streak of scarlet light.
• The tower activated its self-destruct alarm, vented high-pressure steam, and began sealing its entrances with blast-resistant armor plates.

Hela sealed the airspace around the broadcast tower while Gwen Stacy intercepted its signal and discovered the Watchmaker was using the master card cores to open a blind spot in Starport’s outer force field. Lynn recognized a hidden Hydra code in the protocol and led the group toward the tower’s basement, while the upload continued unnoticed.

• Hela ordered the Black Crow Honor Guard to block anything escaping the broadcast tower, and Lynn warned Wanda that destroying it could devastate the Department of Technology’s underground levels.
• Gwen Stacy used an old backup communications channel to intercept the tower’s signal and learned the Watchmaker planned to use the master card cores to open a three-second gap in Starport’s outer force field.
• Lynn stopped Wanda from attacking the converter, explaining that her magic would destroy the master card cores before they could be recovered.
• Lynn recognized a Hydra requisition code in the intercepted protocol and concluded that a hardwired bypass ran through the tower’s main power supply coil.
• Lynn told Gwen Stacy to bring up the basement power diagram and led Hela and the others underground as the tower’s blast-resistant doors sealed shut.

Lynn and Gwen dismantled the Watchmaker’s lethal high-voltage traps in the broadcast tower substation, preventing the main power supply from detonating and slowing the force-field breach above. As they secured the passage, a violent resonance and impact shook the tower from overhead.

• Lynn detected a hidden high-voltage trap and had Gwen use a silk probe to reveal six charged leads and a timed grounding-wire detonator.
• Lynn used Hela’s obsidian sword fragment to redirect the current and jam the detonator while Gwen sealed the capacitor’s pressure-release hole at the precise moment.
• Lynn disabled the six plasma leads, and Gwen cut the low-level protocol bypass, slowing the relay emitter array’s attack on the force field by at least five minutes.
• The cables began to vibrate, a heavy impact struck from above, and concrete fell as the tower’s steel framework groaned.

Lynn and his allies recovered a master copy, captured the agent carrying it, and exposed a conspiracy inside Starport’s Logistics Office and military command. After learning that the Ferryman planned to escape from Deep Space Anchorage No. 17, Lynn and Gwen Stacy reached its sealed gate, where an unknown creature attacked from behind it.

• Lynn identified the dead tester in the machine room and discovered that three master copies had been removed, while traces in the ventilation duct revealed the last carrier’s escape route.
• Lynn captured the fleeing agent alive in the duct, and Gwen Stacy recovered a master copy, a contact list, and a route to the Ferryman’s ship at Anchorage No. 17.
• Wanda confronted Lynn about the scar on his chest, but Lynn restrained her and sent the master copy for reexamination; he then alerted Hela to the diesel smell in the tower annex.
• Gwen Stacy and the royal guards stopped Monk from burning the power distribution room, and Lynn confronted him with evidence linking him to the sabotage and the stolen master copies.
• Monk identified the Ferryman and revealed that a snake-patterned copper key opened the offline gate at Anchorage No. 17; Lynn secured the key and learned a ghost ship was hidden there.
• Lynn reassigned control of the Seventh Defense Zone, then took Gwen Stacy to Anchorage No. 17, where opening the gate triggered a violent blast of corrosive slime and a nonhuman hiss from within.